In an active shooter situation? Fight back with sissors!

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Homeland Security has advice for confronting mass murders: scissors - NYPOST.com...

Is The Department of Homeland Security giving up...their guns? Or just recommending how to defend myself after they take mine away? How can they so easily ignore & consistently avoid the most obvious solution? And how can "they" continue to do what "we" don't WANT?

Retired USAF E-8. Curmudgeon at large.Lighten up and enjoy life because:Paranoia strikes deep, into your life it will creep. It starts when you're always afraid... Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth

As bad as it is to be told to fight with scissors, I still bet that the people who made that video were laughing also. Nobody can possibly think this is a good plan. Until I can get scissors with an M203 tube mounted under the blade, it aint gonna happen.